A66 crash in County Durham on 12 January 1989 at 13:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A66 in County Durham at 13:50 on Thursday 12 January 1989. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 1989
- Thursday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50587, longitude -2.12042, in the DL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in County Durham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989119DC0041
- Council area
- County Durham
- Police force
- Durham
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a fatal crash on 25 November 2011.
Fatal
Land Rover Defender crash on the A66 in County Durham, 25 November 2011
32 m awayRef 201111SC29771
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A66 in County Durham, 22 September 2002
36 m awayRef 200211DC27010
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A66 in County Durham, 11 April 2016
61 m awayRef 2016110061651
Serious
Car crash on the A66 in County Durham, 1 July 1989
67 m awayRef 1989119DC1109
Slight
Lorry crash on the A66 in County Durham, 2 June 1986
100 m awayRef 1986116DC0371
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A66 in County Durham, 2 February 2011
170 m awayRef 201111SC02961
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1989119DC0041 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the County Durham road accident statistics for 1989.